EXECUTIVE
SUMMARYFor
decades,
the
UN
Children’s
Fund
(UNICEF)
has
enjoyed
perhaps
the
finest
reputation
of
any
large
international
organization.
UNICEF
earned
this
reputation
through
an
unwavering
commitment
to
improve
the
health
and
lives
of
as
many
children
as
possible.
However,
since
the
mid-1990s,
some
observers
have
grown
increasingly
concerned
about
programmatic
and
ideological
changes
at
UNICEF.
In
1995,
Carol
Bellamy,
a
New
York
politician
known
for
her
ardent
support
of
abortion
rights,
was
named
UNICEF
Executive
Director.
In
1996,
the
Vatican
suspended
its
annual
contribution
to
UNICEF,
citing,
among
other
reasons,
UNICEF’s
involvement
in
abortion
advocacy
and
the
distribution
of
contraceptives
to
adolescents.
And,
over
the
past
few
years,
numerous
complaints
have
been
made
about
graphic
and
suggestive
sexual
education
manuals
that
UNICEF
has
produced
and
distributed
to
countries
in
Latin
America.For
these
reasons,
the
Catholic
Family
and
Human
Rights
Institute
and
the
International
Organizations
Research
Group
have
produced
a
thorough
and
comprehensive
White
Paper
investigating
the
agency.
The
White
Paper
employs
primary
sources
–
UNICEF
documents
and
the
reports
of
its
nongovernmental
partners
–
almost
exclusively.
We
have
found
that
there
is
substantial
reason
for
concern,
that
UNICEF
has
lost
its
primary
focus,
a
focus
upon
basic
child
survival
and
development,
that
was
so
ably
demonstrated
throughout
the
tenure
of
UNICEF
Executive
Director
James
Grant
(1980-1995).
UNICEF
now
engages
in
a
number
of
controversial
programs
centered
upon
the
promotion
of
a
radical
feminist
ideology.
We
fear
that
the
promotion
of
this
ideology
may
detract
from
UNICEF’s
basic
child
survival
mission.UNICEF
and
AbortionAlthough
it
publicly
denies
all
possible
involvement
with
the
promotion
of
abortion,
we
have
discovered
that
UNICEF
approves
of
abortion,
the
killing
of
the
world’s
most
vulnerable
children.
UNICEF
has
endorsed,
even
helped
to
write,
documents
that
call
for
the
legalization
of
abortion.
In
a
document
on
AIDS,
UNICEF
calls
for
“safe
and
legal
abortion.”
In
a
document
on
maternal
health,
UNICEF
calls
for
“safe
services
for
pregnancy
termination.”
In
a
document
on
the
rights
of
refugees,
UNICEF
proclaims
that
the
“regulation
of
fertility”
is
an
essential
right
of
refugee
women.
In
the
same
document,
UNICEF
endorses
the
distribution
of
abortion-causing
“emergency
contraceptives”
to
these
women.And
UNICEF’s
involvement
with
abortion
might
not
end
with
words.
According
to
the
UN
Population
Fund,
UNICEF
has
helped
to
pay
for
a
program
run
by
the
Population
Council,
the
organization
that
holds
the
US
patent
for
the
abortion
pill,
RU
486.
Goals
of
this
UNICEF-funded
program
included
“improving…reproductive
health
services”
and
“managing
unwanted
pregnancies.”
In
UN
parlance,
“reproductive
health
services”
has
often
included
abortion,
and
“managing
unwanted
pregnancies”
is
a
phrase
routinely
used
by
pro-abortion
non
governmental
organizations
as
a
euphemism
for
abortion
–
the
proper
manner
in
which
to
manage
an
unwanted
pregnancy
being
to
terminate
it.UNICEF
also
funds
a
South
African
group
called
loveLife,
whose
website,
as
of
the
beginning
of
2003,
actively
encouraged
teenage
girls
to
have
abortions,
even
providing
them
with
the
toll
free
telephone
number
of
Marie
Stopes
International
abortion
clinics:
“You
can
get
an
abortion
done
at
Marie
Stopes
Clinics,
0800
11
7785
if
you
are
happy
to
pay
for
the
services.”
LoveLife
pushes
girls
towards
abortion
with
unabashed
insistence:
“You’re
pregnant….You
didn’t
plan
it,
you
don’t
want
it….Remember,
it
is
your
right
to
get
counseling.
It
is
your
right
to
get
an
abortion.
If
people
are
unhelpful,
don’t
get
discouraged.
Keep
trying.
You
don’t
need
permission
from
anybody
to
have
an
abortion.”
LoveLife
also
mentions
that
a
girl
can
have
an
abortion
–
a
procedure
it
describes
as
a
“gentle
suction”
–
without
telling
her
parents.
Instead,
a
girl
should
“Talk
to
someone
–
a
health
worker,
a
counselor,
or
someone
you
can
trust.”
After
his
girlfriend’s
abortion,
loveLife
recommends
that
a
boyfriend
should
“Help
her
feel
special
–
even
a
cup
of
tea
can
help!
Celebrate
together
if
you
want.
Wait
before
you
suggest
sex
and
take
it
easily
and
gently.
Use
contraception.”
Finally,
loveLife
informs
girls
what
they
can
expect
after
their
abortions:
“You
will
feel
a
sense
of
relief.
Some
people
like
to
do
a
ritual
to
end
the
process
–
light
a
candle,
plant
a
flower,
write
a
poem
or
go
for
a
long
walk.”UNICEF
and
ContraceptionUNICEF’s
record
on
contraceptives
is
no
better.
A
UNICEF
historian
writes
that,
for
most
of
its
existence,
“UNICEF
was
focusing
its
attention
almost
exclusively
on
trying
to
encourage
behavioural
change
–
abstinence
or
mono-partnership….UNICEF
did
not
want
to
devote
the
energies
of
its
procurement
system
to
becoming
a
leading
world
supplier
of
low-cost
condoms
(as
it
had
vaccines)…”
But
it
is
now
official
UNICEF
policy
to
“Promote
and
expand
access
to…sexual
and
reproductive
health
services,
including
access
to
condoms.”
And
this
remains
true,
even
though
evidence
from
AIDS-ravaged
Africa
now
suggests
that
abstinence
training,
UNICEF’s
original
program,
is
the
most
effective
means
to
combat
the
spread
of
the
disease.In
fact,
condoms
appear
to
be
an
evermore
prominent
component
of
UNICEF’s
vast
health-care
empire.
Australian
politicians
were
happy
to
discover,
for
instance,
that
the
tiny
Pacific
island
of
Vanuatu
had
a
UNICEF-funded
clinic
“…where
condoms
were
placed
in
a
basket
close
to
the
entrance
door
for
easy
access
and
visibility.
A
client
can
just
walk
in,
collect
condom
supplies
and
leave
without
having
to
ask
the
health
workers
for
them.
This
is
an
excellent
example
of
making
condoms
easily
accessible
without
any
hassle
for
the
clients.”
A
population-control
website
also
lauds
UNICEF
for
funding
a
1998
project
carried
out
by
Marie
Stopes
(again,
the
abortionists)
in
China
that
“increased
young
people’s
access
to
affordable
high-quality
condoms
by
installing
condom
machines
at
entertainment
establishments.”UNICEF
and
Sex
EducationAmong
some
high-ranking
UNICEF
officials,
there
is
a
palpable
distaste
for
traditional
sexual
morality,
and
a
deep-ceded
attachment
to
condoms.
Urban
Jonsson,
UNICEF
Eastern
and
Southern
African
Regional
Director,
told
a
June,
2003
UNICEF
Executive
Board
meeting
that
all
discourse
on
the
relative
effectiveness
of
condoms
should
cease:
“Let
us
stop
the
almost
metaphysical
debate
on
the
pros
and
cons
of
the
use
of
condoms...Let
us
follow
the
decision
of
the
government
of
Botswana
to
make
condoms
available
and
accessible
for
everybody,
everywhere
and
at
all
times….Abstinence
is
simply
not
a
realistic
option
for
most
young
people
in
the
world
today.”
Jonsson
even
called
upon
UNICEF
to
take
actions
to
legalize
prostitution:
“de-criminalise
sex-work
and
facilitate
the
organisation
of
sex-workers.
Experience
from
Europe
and
Thailand
has
shown
that
when
sex-workers
are
organized
they
are
in
a
stronger
position
to
negotiate
safer
sex
with
their
clients.”Condoms
are
just
a
part
of
UNICEF’s
assault
on
traditional
sexual
morality.
UNICEF
has
been
involved
in
the
production
of
a
number
of
graphic
sexual
education
textbooks
in
Latin
America.
In
2000,
Archbishop
Fernando
Saenz
Lacalle
of
San
Salvador
denounced
one
such
manual,
stating
that
“The
dignity
of
people,
institutions
such
as
marriage
and
the
rights
of
the
family
are
all
practically
demolished
with
this
document.”
He
called
the
illustrations
in
the
manual
“insinuating
and
grotesque.”And
UNICEF
continues
to
support
the
South
African
group
loveLife,
even
after
it
became
public
that
loveLife
encourages
sexual
promiscuity
among
adolescents.
On
its
website,
loveLife
informed
children
that
being
bisexual
means
“Swinging
both
ways.
Some
people
prefer
not
to
limit
their
horny
feelings
to
only
half
of
the
population.
They’ll
fall
in
love
with
whoever
feels
right
–
male
or
female.
Why
let
body
parts
limit
the
power
of
love?!”
LoveLife
also
asserts
that,
“If
you
wanna
be
a
great
lover,
learn
good
foreplay!….Go
on
–
experiment,
make
your
partner
melt.
Take
your
time
–
only
amateurs
rush
such
pleasure.”
And
all
of
this
practice
is
meant
to
lead
to
one
thing:
“Orgasm:
…an
orgasm
is
a
big
rush
of
juicy
satisfaction!
You
explode
with
pleasure
and
its
yum
yumyum….Your
body
melts,
your
heart
pumps
and
the
world
feels
like
the
perfect
place
to
be.”UNICEF
and
EducationA
long
commitment
to
raise
worldwide
enrollment
rates
–
what
has
always
been
called
“Education
for
All”
–
has
now
been
transformed
into
a
singular
emphasis
on
girls’
enrollment.
UNICEF
now
seeks
to
boost
girls’
school
enrollment
–
labeling
this
endeavor
its
first
priority
–
without
any
mention
at
all
of
boys’
enrollment.
In
sub-Saharan
Africa,
where
UNICEF
claims
that
27%
of
boys
and
22%
of
girls
attend
school,
only
the
girls’
rate
is
worthy
of
attention,
because
it
is
lower
than
the
boys’
own
dismal
rate.
At
the
same
time,
UNICEF
admits
that
girls
actually
outnumber
boys
in
school
in
such
diverse
nations
as
Columbia,
Namibia,
Spain,
Lesotho,
Venezuela,
Dominican
Republic,
Trinidad
and
Tobago,
South
Africa,
Uruguay,
Finland,
Guyana,
Mongolia
and
the
United
Kingdom,
and
that
“girls
generally
lead
boys
in
Latin
America
and
the
Caribbean.”
However,
UNICEF
has
no
program
in
any
one
of
these
places
to
address
this
inequality.
When
boys
are
disadvantaged,
it
simply
seems
that
this
disadvantage
does
not
matter.
This
fact
led
the
US
delegate
at
a
recent
UNICEF
Executive
Board
meeting
to
plaintively
ask,
“Why
just
girls?”Also,
this
campaign
for
girls’
enrollment
includes
an
effort
to
rewrite
school
textbooks
according
to
current
radical
feminist
gender
theory,
strongly
encouraging,
among
other
things,
girls
to
have
small
families
and
to
work
outside
of
the
home.UNICEF,
Families
and
Radical
FeminismUNICEF’s
embrace
of
feminist
ideology
is
apparent
wherever
one
looks.
It
is
reflected
in
the
overwhelming
emphasis
UNICEF
places
upon
the
problems
facing
girls.
In
fact,
as
of
May
1,
2003,
a
search
on
the
UNICEF
website
found
that
girls
where
mentioned
3164
times,
while
boys
were
only
mentioned
1682
times.
Can
it
be
said
that
girls,
and
issues
and
concerns
relating
to
girls,
warrant
twice
as
much
discussion,
twice
as
much
attention,
as
boys?UNICEF
also
appears
more
interested
in
transforming
family
life
based
upon
radical
feminist
norms
than
in
supporting
families.
UNICEF
is
actively
engaged
in
re-educating
boys
and
men
to
accomplish
“behaviour
change.”
However,
UNICEF
almost
never
speaks
of
fatherhood
in
a
positive
manner,
and
although
it
has
a
vast
number
of
programs
to
help
women
and
mothers,
there
appear
to
be
no
UNICEF
programs
that
specifically
address
the
needs
and
problems
faced
by
fathers.RecommendationsDonor
nations
must
demand
greater
transparency
in
UNICEF
spending.
Donor
nations
must
demand
that
UNICEF
stop
promoting
abortion
rights.
Donor
nations
must
demand
that
UNICEF
cease
to
engage
in
the
promotion
and
distribution
of
graphic
sexual
education
materials,
and
that
UNICEF
publicly
account
for
the
activities
of
all
UNICEF
health
services,
especially
those
relating
to
the
funding
or
distribution
of
contraceptives
to
adolescents.
Donor
nations
should
examine
the
actions
of
senior
management
at
UNICEF,
since
it
is
this
leadership
that
has
moved
the
agency
in
the
direction
outlined
above.
Finally,
donor
nations
should
seek
assurances
from
UNICEF
that
it
will
rededicate
itself
to
its
primary
mission,
child
survival
and
development,
a
mission
that
may
have
been
compromised
by
the
agency’s
espousal
of
radical
feminist
ideology.End.The
full
report,
which
includes
citations
for
all
of
the
information
in
the
Executive
Summary,
is
available
online
at
www.c-fam.org.